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Investigating Chain-of-thought with ChatGPT for Stance Detection on Social Media

arXiv 2304.03087 ↗First posted 6 Apr 2023cs.CLcited by 23

On the map: LLM reasoning → Causal reasoning in LLMs

Abstract (arXiv)

Stance detection predicts attitudes towards targets in texts and has gained attention with the rise of social media. Traditional approaches include conventional machine learning, early deep neural networks, and pre-trained fine-tuning models. However, with the evolution of very large pre-trained language models (VLPLMs) like ChatGPT (GPT-3.5), traditional methods face deployment challenges. The parameter-free Chain-of-Thought (CoT) approach, not requiring backpropagation training, has emerged as a promising alternative. This paper examines CoT's effectiveness in stance detection tasks, demonstrating its superior accuracy and discussing associated challenges.

Key facts. Cited by 23 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Causal reasoning in LLMs, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 13 of its 24 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 6 Apr 2023.

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  1. 2023Stance Detection with Collaborative Role-Infused LLM-Based Agentscited by 53
  2. 2024A Survey of Prompt Engineering Methods in Large Language Models for Different NLP Taskscited by 46
  3. 2023An In-depth Survey of Large Language Model-based Artificial Intelligence Agentscited by 30
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  7. 2023Chain-of-Thought Embeddings for Stance Detection on Social Mediacited by 13
  8. 2024Stance Reasoner: Zero-Shot Stance Detection on Social Media with Explicit Reasoningcited by 11
  9. 2024Cross-target Stance Detection by Exploiting Target Analytical Perspectivescited by 10
  10. 2024DuSEGO: Dual Second-order Equivariant Graph Ordinary Differential Equationcited by 6
  11. 2024Reasoning in Conversation: Solving Subjective Tasks through Dialogue Simulation for Large Language Modelscited by 5
  12. 2023Ladder-of-Thought: Using Knowledge as Steps to Elevate Stance Detectioncited by 4
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  1. 2024Speak It Out: Solving Symbol-Related Problems with Symbol-to-Language Conversion for Language Modelscited by 4
  2. 2024Collaborative Knowledge Infusion for Low-resource Stance Detectioncited by 4
  3. 2023A Logically Consistent Chain-of-Thought Approach for Stance Detectioncited by 3
  4. 2024DIVERSE: A Dataset of YouTube Video Comment Stances with a Data Programming Modelcited by 2
  5. 2025Collaborative Stance Detection via Small-Large Language Model Consistency Verificationcited by 2
  6. 2025Mapping the Italian Telegram Ecosystem: Communities, Toxicity, and Hate Speechcited by 2
  7. 2025Scalable Attribute-Missing Graph Clustering via Neighborhood Differentiationcited by 2
  8. 2024Entity-Aware Self-Attention and Contextualized GCN for Enhanced Relation Extraction in Long Sentencescited by 1
  9. 2024A More Advanced Group Polarization Measurement Approach Based on LLM-Based Agents and Graphscited by 1
  10. 2025Induce, Align, Predict: Zero-Shot Stance Detection via Cognitive Inductive Reasoningcited by 1
  11. 2025PRISM of Opinions: A Persona-Reasoned Multimodal Framework for User-centric Conversational Stance Detectioncited by 0

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